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Hydration Forces

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Water and Biological Macromolecules

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The non-covalent physical-chemical interaction forces between polar polymers, biopolymers and/or various inert polar surfaces, particles or cells are of three fundamentally different classes: (1) apolar, electrodynamic, or Lifshitz-van der Waals (LW) interactions (Chaudhury, 1984); (2) polar, or Lewis acid-base (AB) interactions, which in aqueous media are mainly hydrogen-bonding interactions (van Oss et al., 1988a); (3) electrostatic (EL), or Coulombic interactions (van Oss et al., 1988a). In addition, thermal or Brownian movement (BR) interactions may play a role which, while quantitatively fairly unimportant in interactions between large molecules and particles, may not always be negligible when smaller molecules are involved. The first three interactions can be either attractive or repulsive, independent of the sign of the other two varieties, in any particular case (van Oss et al., 1988a); BR interactions are always considered repulsive. In liquids, LW interactions can only be repulsive when acting between two different solutes or particles; AB and EL interactions can be repulsive even when acting between identical solutes or particles.

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van Oss, C.J. (1993). Hydration Forces. In: Westhof, E. (eds) Water and Biological Macromolecules. Topics in Molecular and Structural Biology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12359-9_13

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